Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Alex Martelli]

Andrew Dalke wrote:
        ...
>> unPythonic arrangement -- the upper bound is *included* (Python's ranges,
>> slices etc have lower-bound-included, upper-bound-excluded...).
> 
> But it isn't a range, it's a repeat count.  Otherwise people would
> also expect
> 
>   ^a{0}
> 
> to match "" because that contains 0 "a"s.  As such, it's much more

"Otherwise"...?

>>> a0=re.compile('^a{0}')
>>> a0.match('')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x8187fb0>

Of *course* a{0} matches '' -- how could it FAIL to?


Alex